TM - 209 - What are you afraid of?
Dec. 20th, 2007 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thrillofthechaseWhat are you afraid of?
You're kidding, right? Okay, some ground rules first. If I find out you've told them any of this, I'm going to make you regret the very day you were born. Are we clear? *smiles* No, I'm not kidding. At all.
What I'm afraid of? I'm afraid of discovering that this 'experiment' has a finite period. That it ends after a month or two months, and that I'm going to be forcibly returned to my previous state of being.
It's not an unfounded fear, either. The Company has been working on this for years. I wasn't involved in most of the earlier experiments because they were handled in the New York facility, but I read the reports. I saw what they'd accomplished, and I saw the results when they failed.
I am not going to be one of those failures.
I'm also not going to be a success that has to be silenced because otherwise it would be too 'difficult' to explain. I guess I'm lucky I have no family to give excuses to. And the thought that I can even say that is a sobering one -- if my wife were still alive, would they let her know I was back? Would they have ever told her anything beyond my death in the first place?
Damn them. I will not spend the rest of my days as a project. Whether they accept me as a contributing employee again, or I have to go rogue, I'll do whatever I have to in order to keep myself in one piece.
Suddenly, Noah Bennet's take on things doesn't seem so out there...
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Muse: Mr. Thompson
Fandom: Heroes
Word count: 269 per PocketWord
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theatrical_muse
You're kidding, right? Okay, some ground rules first. If I find out you've told them any of this, I'm going to make you regret the very day you were born. Are we clear? *smiles* No, I'm not kidding. At all.
What I'm afraid of? I'm afraid of discovering that this 'experiment' has a finite period. That it ends after a month or two months, and that I'm going to be forcibly returned to my previous state of being.
It's not an unfounded fear, either. The Company has been working on this for years. I wasn't involved in most of the earlier experiments because they were handled in the New York facility, but I read the reports. I saw what they'd accomplished, and I saw the results when they failed.
I am not going to be one of those failures.
I'm also not going to be a success that has to be silenced because otherwise it would be too 'difficult' to explain. I guess I'm lucky I have no family to give excuses to. And the thought that I can even say that is a sobering one -- if my wife were still alive, would they let her know I was back? Would they have ever told her anything beyond my death in the first place?
Damn them. I will not spend the rest of my days as a project. Whether they accept me as a contributing employee again, or I have to go rogue, I'll do whatever I have to in order to keep myself in one piece.
Suddenly, Noah Bennet's take on things doesn't seem so out there...
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Muse: Mr. Thompson
Fandom: Heroes
Word count: 269 per PocketWord
Crossposted to
theatrical_muse
